Greg Reddick is a noted speaker, author, and software engineer. This blog covers all aspects of programming, particularly for Windows, and other related topics.

2017-04-21

WiX MSI ICE Errors

A MSI (Microsoft Installer) file is actually a relational database. You can use the ORCA (One Really Cool App) program to examine its content. While the WiX candle compiler and light linker can check the contents of individual records in the database, it is the job of ICE (Internal Consistency Evaluators) to check if the database is created correctly.